Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local farmers lent a hand as well. The "College Corn" campaign to which each family was asked to contribute a peck of wheat per year supported a dozen scholarship's and paid the salaries of the entire faculty during this period...
...thousand peasants of Kwangsi province revolted and fought Communist troops for a full week after Red guards shot peasant leaders for resisting a local administrative order (Kwangsi Daily...
...Communist China press, the picture was prettied up too, but still ugly spots showed through. Issues of Communist local papers reaching Hong Kong report these details of Communist unrest in recent months...
...state visit. It was flanked by six Yugoslav and six Greek warships and heralded by a 21-gun salute and the zooming of Greek air-force planes overhead. Soon the one-time peasant agitator and soldier of Communist fortune was swapping chatty conversation with King Paul and Queen Frederika. Local Communists (Moscow variety) were clapped into jail for as long as Tito was in town...
...long felt itself neglected by its prosperous brother, West Pakistan. Two months ago the angry Bengalis of East Pakistan trooped to the polls in the first provincial election since independence, and routed Mohammed Ali's Moslem League from office, leaving it only ten of 309 seats in the local legislature. Into power came a comic United Front-as diverse a group of politicians as ever made common cause-ranging from an Orthodox Islamic party to a Communist outfit on the left. Atop the uneasy heap as Chief Minister sat old (82) but popular Fazlul Huq, who campaigned for election...